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Download full textCarni, Ellen; French, Lucia – 1982
The "contextual hypothesis" of French and Brown (1977) concerning children's acquisition of temporal terms was tested. French and Brown claimed that it would be impossible for children to learn the meaning of temporal terms except by hearing them used in contexts where they referred to already known sequences, and further proposed that the terms…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Concept Formation, Context Effect
Nakayama, Mineharu; Enomoto, Noriko – 1987
A study investigated Japanese 3-to-5-year-olds' comprehension of sentences using the temporal terms "before" and "after" and examined whether contextual information helped the children respond correctly. The children were asked to perform a task with a toy either before or after performing another task with a different toy.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Grammar
Moerk, Ernest L.; Vilaseca, Rosa M. – 1987
A study examined the teaching and learning processes in the mother-child interaction that lead to the child's acquisition of the English morphemes for future and past. Data were drawn from transcripts of a mother and daughter's interaction during a period of active acquisition, age 22 to 27 months. Longitudinal microanalytic and macroanalytic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English
French, Lucia; Nelson, Katherine – 1981
Linguistic and cognitive competencies of preschoolers were revealed by interviewing them about routine activities. It was found that freeing preschoolers' speech from constraints inherent in talking about the immediate context results in their demonstrating control over a variety of language-related skills that are generally assumed to be beyond…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Comprehension
Schaeffer, Jeannette – 1995
This paper reports the results of an experiment with 21 Italian children (age 2;8-5;11) and 29 U.S. children (age 2;7-5;9) who were tested on their knowledge of verb raising to C in main WH-questions, an obligatory movement process in adult Italian and English. Along the lines of recent movement and feature checking theories, it is proposed that,…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Graphs, Italian
Keller-Cohen, Deborah – 1974
In order to investigate the hypothesis that the conceptualization of sequence precedes that of simultaneity in child development, and to explore the use of elicited imitation in studying lexical acquisition, 32 subjects between 3 and 5 years of age were asked to verbally imitate a list of sentences. The constructions combined simple and reverse…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development
